Space Cadet suffers from a similar fate, despite a pleasing aesthetic. The construction of cuts like Warm Thoughts and the trippy and ever so slightly disorientating More Than You Thought is applied with such tact that it’s admirable, but it’s nowhere near as attention-grabbing as some of his more successful efforts. They’re euphoric, despite their eccentricities and laid-back vibes, and leave you so seduced that small irritants like the chipmunk vocal in Stay Close seem irrelevant.Īdmittedly, for all of its peaks and variety, it’s not a perfect album. Away from the guest turns, it’s the slow jams, such as the excellent What You Need, that linger long in the memory. A raft of friends offer their assistance on vocals – the standouts coming from T-Shirt during On Top, an exciting slice of wiry hip-hop, and Moon Holiday on Insane, an assured piece of electro-R&B. However, whilst his tracks have a tendency to come across as sonic snapshots, Flume is adept at finding strong hooks that dazzle the listener with one play the Chet Faker-featuring Left Alone contains a chorus that rises above the bleeps and warped synths.Ĭhet Faker isn’t the only person giving Flume a helping a hand. The work of Flying Lotus, another artist who seems to take inspiration from every conceivable genre, springs to mind given its eclectic nature. So many producers fail to live up to the hype that’s poured on them from blogs and the like, but Streten should be applauded for rising up to the pressure with aplomb.
That success is not just limited to his native homeland though – he wowed the crowds at SXSW and his following in Europe has been growing with each visit.Īll of this served to make his eponymous debut a highly anticipated album for those around the world who hadn’t yet had the chance to hear it (it was originally released in Australia in 2012).
He’s scored a number of entries in influential radio station Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown and will be one of their star home-grown billings at next year’s Big Day Out travelling extravaganza. star Caroline Polachek, British polymath-icon Damon Albarn, Spain’s Vergen Maria, France’s Oklouand fellow Australian Kučka, who returns following her standout turn on Skin.Down under in Australia, Melbourne-based Flume (aka Harley Streten) is a big deal. The album features a host of vocalists and collaborators, its cast list spanning new and household names from around the world-breakout U.S. Palaces is his most confident, mature and uncompromising work to date, a true testament to nurturing the relationships that make us whole and bring us peace.
As Flume continued to forge a strong connection to his surroundings, the album he wanted to make started to form, eventually adopting a title to properly highlight the luxury and magic of the natural world. He and his neighbour and long-time collaborator, the visual artist Jonathan Zawada, became fascinated by the local wildlife, in particular the birds, collecting field recordings that ultimately worked their way in to the album. Settling in a coastal town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Flume quickly found the inspiration he needed through reconnecting with the nature around him-the rolling hills, walking around barefoot, the green colour the sky turns before a big storm, growing and eating his own vegetables, the smell of rain. Palaces began to take shape when Flume returned to his native Australia after struggling to write music in Los Angeles at the beginning of the pandemic. Wildly acclaimed, Grammy-winning artist Flume returns with a new album, Palaces, out 20th May on Transgressive Records.
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